No, really! Ubuntu is not Linux! Try it on for size!

Not that I dont agree with you bigg, in theory thats exactly how it should work. A recent story comes to mind though where our Geek in Chief Linus sent in patches to the Gnome folks and to date has gotten exactly nowhere with it (to my knowledge).

If folks are willing to ignore the Linux lead geek it leads one to wonder where it leaves Joe Sixpack.

>Time for someone to up the meds.

Or get off them.

Seems like there's never a shortage of people wishing to curtail freedom of expression.

?? I thought the article itself was quite sensible. Maybe I need some meds?

TC -

Article is fine. You may need meds, but the article has nothing to do with it.

> ?? I thought the article itself was quite sensible. Maybe I need some meds?

"I nominate that Ubuntu be crowned and knighted as the designated New Free Windows"

Ubuntu is not Windows, free or otherwise.

Quoting:>Time for someone to up the meds.

Or get off them.

Seems like there's never a shortage of people wishing to curtail freedom of expression.

The meds comment wasn't about the article. It was about the comment he made that devnet posted. Are you saying that you too equate the term "elitist" with those terms?

I think he was saying that the person referring to 'elitist' as a 'hate word' is probably too medicated as it is.

The person referring to elitist as a 'hate word' is the author of that blog. He had a real problem with me using that term elitism and labelling people who look down their nose at new users telling them to RTFM when the manual could use vast improvements to be friendlier to the new, less tech savvy crowd that Linux has attracted.

helios jumped in and asked what the guy was smoking and then that Mr. Pete there ripped off that elitist-is-a-hate-word one liner.

Don'cha just love made up phrases like 'hate-word'... In reality, it's all politically motivated BS, but then, I'm an elitist, so what do I know ;-)

I'm generally irritated by the various words made out of "hate". "Hater" is one of those that just grates on my nerves.

And "hatin'"! Let's make up a word, then butcher it!

Aw, those are just slang.

> Aw, those are just slang.

'just slang' is what eventually becomes the language...

Hey now, dun be hatin on them haters!

/me ducks to avoid the flying computer parts

I threw my daughter's boyfriend out of the house for using the phrase "don't be hatin', yo".

This was after an afternoon filled with such gems as "they can bring it cuz that's how I roll", "I don't be diggin' on no Deep Purple" and "I gots what I gots."

ye gods, SFN. I admire your restraint. I vote for disabling his ability to speak entirely, since he's just abusing the privilege. Any sharp instrument will work.

Hey. That's abusive & violent! I'm gonna quit blogging in protest. Oh wait. I never got started. Oh well.

SFN, Thanks! There at least two of us fathers on the same wavelength.

Dave

dt -

Not just two...

I'm with ya'll.

> I'm an elitist,...

Sigh. No elitehood for me I guess. I'll just have to settle for being a Slacker. :)